STAT testing? A guideline for meeting clinician turnaround time requirements. Practice parameter.

abstract：:Thrombocytopenia frequently complicates neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and has been postulated to result from absorption of bacterial endotoxins from the injured gut. The authors tested blood obtained during 47 episodes of NEC for endotoxin-like activity (ELA), using a Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay and fou...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Scheifele DW,Olsen EM,Pendray MR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood samples of 23 patients who had hairy cell leukemia were examined for leukocyte alkaline phosphatase scores. Leukocyte alkaline phosphatase levels were elevated in seventeen patients (74%), were normal in six (26%), and were not decreased in any patient. The mean leukocyte alkaline phosphatase score wa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aiba M,Raffa PP,Katayama I

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Digene Hybrid Capture 2 (hc2) high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test (Digene, Gaithersburg, MD) is widely used for triage of women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Results in a "retest zone" (weakly positive tests) are repeated up to 2 times according to the Digene-recommended algo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Muldrew KL,Beqaj SH,Han J,Lum SH,Clinard V,Schultenover SJ,Tang YW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the selective staining of lysosomes in cells of neutrophilic granulocytic origin by the azo textile dye basic blue 93. Used as a single agent aqueous stain after fixation, the dye stained lysosomes black. Stained in this way, lysosomes were sharply delimited and easily visualized. Large numbers o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kass L

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Special AT-rich binding protein 2 (SATB2) immunohistochemistry (IHC) has high sensitivity and specificity for colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC), but data on its expression in specific subsets of pulmonary, gastric, small bowel, and pancreatobiliary adenocarcinomas (ADCAs) are relatively limited or discordant. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Michele S,Remotti HE,Del Portillo A,Lagana SM,Szabolcs M,Saqi A

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil function was determined in resting and phagocytic cells by an assay of hexose monophosphate shunt activity performed on small volumes of whole blood. This new micromethod clearly differentiated between zymosan-stimulated and unstimulated hexose monophosphate shunt activity. Furthermore, the whole blood micr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： King JW,McCall CE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several laboratory methods are currently available for the detection of barbiturates, but few are suitable for emergency use, The authors evaluated use of an ultraviolet spectrophotometric method as a screening procedure and compared the results with results obtained by other barbiturate methods (colorimetric, gas-li...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumann GB,Lauenstein K,LeFever D,Henry JB

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five renal biopsies with amyloidosis were studied by light microscopy with Congo red staining and action of potassium permanganate and by immunofluorescence with antihuman tissue A component antiserum antilight and heavy chains of immunoglobulins antisera. The patients were classified on the basis of concordance...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Noel LH,Droz D,Ganeval D

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From November 1985 to December 1990, 2,552 endomyocardial biopsy specimens from 209 heart transplant patients were studied. Forty-four (21%) patients developed 45 episodes of major human cytomegalovirus infection (HCMV). Human cytomegalovirus infection was primary in 13 of 44 patients. Thirty-one patients developed ep...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arbustini E,Grasso M,Diegoli M,Percivalle E,Grossi P,Bramerio M,Campana C,Goggi C,Gavazzi A,Vigano M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained data on laboratory turnaround time (TAT) and emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS). We correlated potassium test TAT outlier percentage (TAT-OP) with ED LOS and found that for each outlier percentage (potassium result > 40 minutes), a projected impact on ED LOS was approximately 2.8 additional min...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holland LL,Smith LL,Blick KE

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils are normally absent from the urine. Their presence has been associated with a variety of clinical conditions affecting the kidney or urinary tract. The authors examined the clinical significance and eosinophils, in particular, for acute interstitial nephritis. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Corwin HL,Haber MH

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve is a disease of unknown etiology that is associated with many ominous complications. A case in which non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis, superimposed on a myxomatous mitral valve, resulted in systemic embolization to the brain, heart, and kidney is presented. The purpose ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geyer SJ,Franzini DA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the dispensing and inoculating characteristics of the MIC-2000 micro-broth dilution system and compares its ability to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations with that of the reference macro-broth dilution method. Micro-well filling showed a coefficient of variation of 6.8%, and micro-well...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Ramadei WA,Quall CO

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of florid proliferative sialometaplasia arising in salivary ductal inclusions in an intraparotid lymph node is described. This lesion probably represents an exuberant response to sialadenitis. Other entities that enter into its differential diagnosis in this particular location are discussed. Except for Warthin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldman RL,Klein HZ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a blood derivative that is being evaluated for the prevention and treatment of numerous disorders. Recent studies have suggested beneficial effects from the prophylactic administration of IVIG to very-low-birth-weight neonates. A disadvantage of such therapy is misleading infectiou...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nixon RR,Smith SA,Johnson RL,Pillers DA

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of spurious red blood cell parameters caused by serum cold agglutinins has been well characterized for the Coulter counters but not the Ortho ELT-8. The pattern consists of a spurious increase in mean corpuscular volume (MCV), a discrepancy between the hemoglobin and the hematocrit, the latter falsely redu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Solanki DL,Blackburn BC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a minimally invasive method possibly representing a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) of different causes. We first describe herein the morphologic, histochemical, and immunohistochemical features of previously unreported eosinophilic globular deposi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossi G,Andreani A,Morandi P,Marchioni A,Corradini P,Cappiello G,Bortolotti M,Qosja A,Manzini C,Ferri C,Richeldi L,Cavazza A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the pathologic significance of ductular reactions in chronic liver diseases with respect to cellular senescence. The expression of senescence-associated markers (p16(INK4a) and p21(WAF1/Cip1)), cell proliferation, cell cycle markers (cyclin D and cyclin A), and neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) was ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sasaki M,Ikeda H,Yamaguchi J,Miyakoshi M,Sato Y,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman who had undergone orthotopic heart transplantation because of dilative cardiomyopathy received a triple-drug immunosuppressive regimen (cyclosporine A, azathioprine, and prednisolone). During her relatively frequent episodes of acute rejection, she was treated with methylprednisolone and repeated a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kemnitz J,Cremer J,Gebel M,Uysal A,Haverich A,Georgii A

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the frequency of systemic mastocytosis (SM) in a large series of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with t(8;21)(q22;q22). METHODS:We retrospectively characterized 40 bone marrow aspirate smears and biopsy specimens from patients with AML with t(8;21) for the presence of SM. Cases were assessed for mast...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson RC,Savage NM,Chiang T,Gotlib JR,Cherry AM,Arber DA,George TI

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single oral dose of tetracycline deposits in bone and is readily identified with fluorescence microscopy. Two such time-spaced labels can be used to determine bone dynamic features. This is as accurate as conventional three-day labeling periods. The simplicity, improved compliance, and substantial reduction in time ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sherrard DJ,Maloney NA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have suggested that a plausible mechanism for variation in reported mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and hematocrit values for Hematology Survey Specimens may be due to the presence of hyperglycemia in the suspending matrix of the specimens, resulting in cell swelling due to an osmotic matrix effect. The ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Savage RA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this research was to determine test intervals between intraoperator case reviews to minimize the impact of recall. METHODS:Three pathologists were presented with a group of 120 slides and subsequently challenged with a study set of 120 slides after 2-week and 4-week intervals. The challenge...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Campbell WS,Talmon GA,Foster KW,Baker JJ,Smith LM,Hinrichs SH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of nonconventional bacterial strains and electron microscopy occasionally may aid in the recognition of unusual microorganisms which fail to be demonstrated by more conventional bacterial stains. We report an unusual case of recurrent vaginal polyps, initially thought by physical examination to represent a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Strate SM,Taylor WE,Forney JP,Silva FG

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to evaluate the clinical, histologic, and histochemical staining characteristics of intestinal metaplasia (IM) at an endoscopically normal-appearing esophagogastric junction (IM-EGJ) compared with IM in a columnar-lined esophagus (IM-CLE). A prospective study included 253 patients referred for elective...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Sandick JW,van Lanschot JB,van Felius L,Haringsma J,Tytgat GN,Dekker W,Drillenburg P,Offerhaus GJ,ten Kate FJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex probably plays a crucial role in the efficacy of the cellular immune response against virally infected cervical diseases. Therefore, the allele-specific histocompatibility-related leukocyte antigens (HLA) class I and II expression on normal (n = 10), premalignant (n = 25), and mali...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilders CG,Houbiers JG,Krul EJ,Fleuren GJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy reports of 231 adult autopsies were examined for clinically unexpected diagnoses. Analysis of data showed that 97 of 188 autopsy diagnoses were clinically unexpected. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was clinically the most frequently missed diagnosis relative to its actual occurrence. Also noted was that t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rao MG,Rangwala AF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that kallikrein inhibition may predispose patients with the lupus inhibitor to thrombosis by interfering with the Factor XII-mediated activation of plasminogen. To further investigate this suggestion, the authors measured kallikrein inhibition in 19 patients with the lupus inhibitor. They found t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Killeen AA,Meyer KC,Vogt JM,Edson JR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cases of three patients who had clinical courses and hematologic data consistent with plasma-cell leukemia or a terminal leukemic phase of multiple myeloma are presented. A double Bence Jones protein was demonstrated in the urine of two of the patients. Immunoelectrophoresis and immunofluorescence studies demonstr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pedraza MA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the antigen expression profiles of 19 anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) cases by multiparameter flow cytometry. The neoplastic cells expressed CD45, HLA-DR, and CD30 in all cases. At least 1 T cell-associated antigen was expressed in each case (CD2, 12/17 [71%]; CD4, 12/19 [63%]; CD3, 6/19 [32%]; CD7, 6...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Juco J,Holden JT,Mann KP,Kelley LG,Li S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00